Collocations for "path"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "path" in context.
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path
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [garden, yard, house, forest, bicycle] path
- a [smooth, straight, narrow] path
- in the [hurricane's, elephant's, hunter's] path
- [take, follow] the path
- what path should we [take]?
- walk [along, down, up] the path
- [find, look for] a path to the [road, beach]
- [make, clear] a path (for)
- made a straight path for [home, school]
- the [city, area, town] is on the [plane's, aircraft's] flight path
- there were [cattle, sheep, animals] on the path
- [cattle] were blocking the path
- UK: led me up the garden path
- the path [continued, wound] for [two miles]
- the path led to the [road, woods]
- the path [ended, disappeared, vanished]
- is on the path to [success, fame]
- [choose, decide, further] your career path
- a path through the [forest, woods, city]
- the path less [traveled, trodden]
'path' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
abreast
- accessible
- along
- angle
- bar
- barrier
- beat
- bike
- block
- career
- carriage
- cement
- chase
- chosen
- churn
- clear
- close
- concrete
- correct
- correction
- countryside
- crazy
- crook
- crowd
- curve
- cycle
- devious
- dip
- direct
- dirt
- divide
- dodge
- down
- drove
- dusty
- earthquake
- eastern
- enemy
- familiar
- forge
- fork
- fraught
- glide
- going
- gravel
- hump
- jog
- journey
- kink
- left